Producing: Putting Out Fires while Leading with Style & Grace
A conversation I often have with fellow artists is why we do what we do? It is not easy. We pour our souls out to an audience who may...
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Melissa Moschitto & Collaborating Artists
Jul 12, 20172 min read
#ecopledge party
One month ago, at our first rehearsal for The Anthropologists Save The World!, we asked the entire company to join us on a personal...
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The Anthropologists
Jun 27, 20172 min read
The Tightrope: Being A Parent Artist
Being a parent and an artist is both a tightrope walk and a tug of war. Especially when your children are young and you are the primary...
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Lynde Rosario
May 11, 20174 min read
A DRAMATURG DEVISING: ADVOCACY
ADVOCACY = Affirm the function, explore the practice, and promote the profession of dramaturgy. This is how LMDA (Literary Managers and...
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The Anthropologists
Apr 22, 20172 min read
Imagining our Future
Here's a roughly accurate version of a conversation I had last night: FRIEND: So, what are you working on? Anything new? ME: Yes! My...
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The Anthropologists
Apr 13, 20172 min read
"One Word: Plastics!"
The title of this blog (if you hadn't already guessed) is the iconic quote from The Graduate. Meant as a suggestion for a viable career...
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Melissa Moschitto & Collaborating Artists
Apr 4, 20177 min read
Kids In The Rehearsal Room!
Last week, we conducted an experiment: we brought four kids under the age of 5 into the rehearsal room for a 4 hour rehearsal. Would it...
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The Anthropologists
Mar 16, 20172 min read
Parenting & Artistry: Entering a New Phase
On Sunday, March 12, we broke ground on our newest play, This Sinking Island. This play expands our current body of investigative...
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The Anthropologists
Mar 16, 20171 min read
Character Podcasts: Give Us Bread
We opened up the archives to find these podcast interviews with some of the original cast members who devised Give Us Bread. This is a...
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Shayna Padovano
Mar 8, 20173 min read
No More: In Honor of International Women's Day
In honor of International Women's Day, we invited original cast member Shayna Padovano to write about the women of Give Us Bread. Shayna...
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The Anthropologists
Mar 5, 20173 min read
Meeting Marie
This locket was my gift from the cast of Give Us Bread on opening night. Engraved upon the back are the words: "The time has come!" -...
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The Anthropologists
Feb 22, 20172 min read
Our Home
Working without a dedicated physical space is not so unusual in New York City, but it does cause us to question the nature of home and...
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The Anthropologists
Feb 21, 20173 min read
February 20, 1917
Who is that woman in the wide-brimmed hat? In 2008 and 2009, when we were researching the events of the 1917 food riots on the Lower East...
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The Anthropologists
Feb 19, 20172 min read
100 Years In The Making
In February, 1917, rising food prices led rioters to attack food shops and burn peddler's pushcarts on the Lower East Side and in...
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The Anthropologists
Feb 17, 20171 min read
Welcome to Field Notes
Welcome to Field Notes! Inspired by the anthropological tradition of taking field notes, please meet our new blog where we share our...
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The Anthropologists
Oct 14, 20162 min read
#BlackLivesMatter
The Anthropologists stands in unequivocal support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Over the past year, as we have been developing our...
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